SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: William Butler Yeats

»William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. He was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, and later served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.« -- More information: Wikipedia

Leda and the Swan (Poem)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»"Leda and the Swan" is a sonnet by William Butler Yeats composed in 1923 and first published in the Dial in June, 1924, and later published in the collection 'The Cat the Moon and Certain Poems' in 1924. Combining psychological realism with a mystic vision, it describes the swan's rape of Leda. It also alludes to the Trojan war, which will be provoked by the abduction of Helen, who will be begotten by Zeus on Leda (along with Castor and Pollux, in some versions of the myth). Clytaemnestra, who killed her husband, Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, was also supposed to have hatched from one of Leda's eggs. The poem is regularly praised as one of Yeats's masterpieces.« -- More information: Wikipedia

K e y w o r d s

I. Chronological Index: Ancient History: Ancient Greece; Modern History: 20^th Century | II. Geographical Index: European History: Irish History | III. Topical Index: Cases: Mythological Offenders: Zeus; Mythological Offenders: Leda; Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Amende, Kathaleen. »“A man with such an appearance was capable of anything”: Imaginary Rape and the Violent “Other” in Faulkner’s “Dry September” and Oz’s “Nomad and Viper”.« The Faulkner Journal 25 (2010): 9-22.

[Info] Babu, Saleem, et al. »Culture, Gender, Language and Literature: Parallel Observation in the Indian Literature and British.« EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 10 (2024): 902-904.

[Info] Johnsen, William. »Textual/sexual politics in Yeats’s ‘Leda and the Swan’.« Yeats and postmodernism. Edited by Leonard Orr. Syracuse 1991: 80-89.

[Info] Neigh, Janet. »Reading from the Drop: Poetics of Identification and Yeats's "Leda and the Swan".« Journal of Modern Literature 29 (2006): 145-160.

[Info] Yoon, Hyonyung. »말라르메의 『목신의 오후』와 예이츠의 「레다와 백조」에 재현된 강간 환상.« 한국 예이츠 저널 70 (2023): 135-160.

II. Speaker Index